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For example, the transitional phase is a period in which public debt inevitably increases.
Thus, increases of 40-50% of GDP risk cutting long-run growth in half in parts of Western Europe, and by one-third in America – a devastating reduction in gains in living standards over the course of a generation.
Cross-country evidence shows that the size of public redistributive spending increases with the degree of proportionality in the electoral system.
NSE treats modern economic development as a process of continuous structural change in technologies, industries, and hard and soft infrastructure – all of which increases labor productivity, and thus per capita income.
Unless the EU changes course and increases its production of alternative energy – including biofuels, an option the EU has long neglected – some 95% of its oil will come from foreign sources by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
The policy combined a gradual increase in taxes on both gasoline and diesel with additional short-term increases in diesel tax to reflect adverse local pollution effects.
Intended increases should be gradual and declared far in advance, and they should be delayed when oil prices and thus pre-tax fuel costs are sharply increasing.
France’s possible 23% increase in diesel prices in only 15 months should have been interpreted as a political red flag; effective climate change policy does not require such rapid price increases.
Considerable evidence does suggest that global warming causes increases in rain, especially heavy rain.
If prices – and thus average debt-service capacity – fall, the real burden of the debt increases.
Instead of ineffective and costly cuts, we should focus much more of our good climate intentions on dramatic increases in Rampamp;D for zero-carbon energy, which would fix the climate towards mid-century at low cost.
A weaker dollar increases the purchasing power of US trading partners (the so-called Dornbusch effect, named for the late MIT economist Rudi Dornbusch), some of which spills over to increased demand for energy.
But competition is as important as financing in determining a university's quality, because competition increases the merit of the product.
If the only factor that increases a professor's salary is the passage of time, why make the extra effort to excel?
Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long-overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities – and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long-term growth – President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions.
The Fed’s policy of increasing the supply of dollars also increases investors’ concern about the future rate of inflation in the US.
Routine increases banality and thoughtlessness; the personal disappears.
The EU, by design, increases economic competition, but France is ill equipped.
With roughly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, the Chinese do have deep pockets to fund massive increases in government spending, and to help backstop bank loans.
In the euro’s initial years, Germany had no option but to reduce worker protections, limit wage increases, and reduce pensions as it tried to increase employment.
Deflation increases the real (inflation-adjusted) debt burden, as well as the real interest rate.
The discussion has so far followed easily predictable national patterns: Creditor countries do not object to deflation, because it increases the real value of their investment, whereas debtor countries’ repayment burdens would grow heavier.
Large tax cuts and large expenditure increases inevitably lead to large deficits.
Their favorite model predicts increases in real incomes after 15 years that range from 0.5% for the United States to 8% in Vietnam.
Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer for Apple and Dell, has announced wage increases of as much as 70%.
China should count these wage increases as a measure of its success.
As supply-chain efficiency increases, so does the eventual extraction and use of resources and, ultimately, the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere.
At the same time, Bush supported expenditure increases for popular items like education and prescription drug benefits, but paid for these services by borrowing the money rather than ensuring sufficient tax revenues.
The problem is that the media have an interest in publishing information that increases their audience, and personal information, especially of a sexual nature, will often do just that.
This is not a complete surprise: in many countries, working classes and rural farmers have benefited from per capita income increases and a broadening social safety net, while the middle classes feel the pinch from rising inflation, poor public services, corruption, and intrusive government.
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